Francis Bacon Quotes
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
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I'm not tall enough to be a model, but I wish I was 6-foot, because I love it. It's kind of artsy, and I'm artsy. And I love clothes.
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I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick.
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I never want any problems with anybody in this world.
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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. The only thing that can console one for being rich is economy.
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The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art.
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The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind,And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.
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The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge.
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Si eres bueno con éste, con aquél dirán que eres bueno. Si eres bueno con todos, nadie dirá que eres bueno.
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On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting.
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In France, I am the fifth artisan to produce his own chocolate, and the others have been doing it for a long time.
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I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.
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Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.
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One of the things that you have trouble with politicians, particularly in Washington, is when you get mad at them and you can't touch them; you can't punch them; you can't yell at them.
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When people love you for your cultural contributions, geographical boundaries become nonexistent.
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I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambient as I am without it.
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A gun in your hand makes a fool out of you. A gun in your hand makes a target out of me.
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I think we have the approach that every race is a sprint. Some races are just longer sprints than others.
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British podcasts tend to shamefacedly shuffle the ads towards the end. Americans put them up front and promote them enthusiastically. I think the Americans have it right.
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Are you doing the kind of work you were built for, so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparatively little.
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Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.
